The Weirdest Things Aussies Have Googled Over The Years

Can you cast your mind back to a time when your life was not dictated by Google?

You'd only need to think back 20 years, to when Britney ruled the airwaves, Posh and Becks started dating and we used AOL and Yahoo to look things up on the Internet.

Since then, Google Search has become our way of navigating each and every day; to answer life's seemingly simple questions and to satisfy our innermost curiosities (e.g. How many weeks in a year? How to delete a page in word? Can you die from a hangover? What do dogs dream about? How does it end?)

2009

Let's jump ahead a few years to when the hottest search terms on google.com.au started surfacing.

Aussies went crazy for the lemon detox diet, Masterchef and vampires, with Twilight-related searches becoming the fastest rising of the year.

The top three global searches were sounding similar: swine flu, Susan Boyle and 'stimulus package'. Losing music icon Michael Jackson, plus the rumoured death of Jeff Goldblum and Miley Cyrus, also had people intensely Googling.

2011

2011 was a year of curiosities, with the rumoured iPhone 5, video game Minecraft and the lucid tones of Adele spiking Aussies' attention.

Alongside Justin Bieber, Charlie Sheen and Qantas, YouTube joined the list of top news searches, which could come be explained due to the rise in mobile phone footage recording breaking news.

2016

In 2016, Aussies searched for Brexit, Bowie and banana bread. Pauline Hanson took out the title of the country's top trending politician, while we also took a firm interest in the U.S. presidential election.

A 16-year-old artist sparked conversation over her Australia Day Google Doodle depicting Indigenous Australians from the Stolen Generation.

2017: Slime, fidget spinners and bitcoin. Image: Supplied

2017

'How to' questions took a real turn in 2017. It was the year we took an interest in slime, fidget spinners and were hungry for Shepherd's pie and buying Bitcoin.